Method, apparatus and electronic equipment for recognizing posture of target

ABSTRACT

The present application provides a method, apparatus and electronic equipment for recognizing a posture of a target, a first receiving signal and a second receiving signal upon scattering of a transmitting signal from a target to be recognized are acquired, a first baseband signal is determined according to the first receiving signal and the transmitting signal, and a second baseband signal is determined according to the second receiving signal and the transmitting signal; and a category of the posture of the target to be recognized is finally determined according to the first baseband signal and the second baseband signal. The first baseband signal and the second baseband signal carry various feature values related to the posture of the target, including but not limited to transversal velocity information and radial velocity information, etc.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

This application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No.202010315851.0, filed on Apr. 21, 2020, which is hereby incorporated byreference in its entirety.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present application relates to the field of computer signalprocessing, and in particular, to a method, apparatus and electronicequipment for recognizing a posture of a target.

BACKGROUND

Recently, with the vigorous development of computer technologies, theapplication of posture recognition of a moving target by virtue ofcomputer technologies has become more and more widespread, such asgesture recognition, head posture recognition, drop recognition, bodymotion recognition and so on.

However, a traditional recognition method uses a radar to transmit amicrowave and receive an echo. Performing time-frequency analysis on theradar echo to obtain a Micro-Doppler feature of the echo, thenrecognizing and classifying the moving target. However, the method inwhich analysis is purely performed on the radar echo can only reflect aradical velocity feature of the target, rather than a transversal motionfeature of the target, thereby making the accuracy of posturerecognition of a target highly sensitive to an azimuth angle. When theazimuth angle of the moving target deviating from a positive directionof the radar exceeds a certain range, the accuracy of the recognitionwill be greatly influenced. Moreover, the radar can only obtainprojection of the target's velocity along the radial direction, sincethe radial projection cannot reflect the transversal motion feature,thus leading to low accuracy of recognizing horizontally symmetricalgestures (such as swiping from left to right and swiping from right toleft) by the radar.

On the other hand, another solution to the above problem in prior art isto use a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) radar to obtain angleinformation of the target by applying an array antenna. However,accurate angle information requires multi-antenna arrays, which is in atradeoff relationship with hardware cost. Also, the time complexity ofarray signal processing is relatively high, thereby making the real-timeinteraction based on postures of the moving target difficult.

SUMMARY

The present application provides a method and apparatus for recognizinga posture of a target, electronic equipment, and a storage medium tosolve the problem that a position of the target and horizontallysymmetrical motion of the target affect the recognition accuracy andstability due to the fact that the traditional radar in the prior artcannot reflect the transversal moving feature of the target's posture,and the problem of high hardware cost due to the introduction of theMIMO radar, high complexity of array signal processing and poorreal-time interactivity.

In a first aspect, the present application provides a method forrecognizing a posture of a target, including:

acquiring a first receiving signal and a second receiving signal uponscattering of a transmitting signal from a target to be recognized,where the transmitting signal is transmitted by a transmitting antennaof a radar, the first receiving signal is received by a first receivingantenna of the radar, the second receiving signal is received by asecond receiving antenna of the radar, and the radar includes at leasttwo receiving antennas;

determining a first baseband signal according to the first receivingsignal and the transmitting signal, and determining a second basebandsignal according to the second receiving signal and the transmittingsignal; and

determining a category of the posture of the target to be recognizedaccording to the first baseband signal and the second baseband signal.

Optionally, where the determining a category of the posture of thetarget to be recognized according to the first baseband signal and thesecond baseband signal includes: determining, according to the firstbaseband signal and the second baseband signal, radial velocityinformation of the target to be recognized by using a presettime-frequency analysis algorithm; performing interferometric processingon the first baseband signal and the second baseband signal to obtaintransversal velocity information of the target to be recognized; anddetermining the category of the posture of the target to be recognizedaccording to the transversal velocity information and the radialvelocity information.

Optionally, where the performing interferometric processing on the firstbaseband signal and the second baseband signal to obtain transversalvelocity information of the target to be recognized includes: performinginterferometric processing on the first baseband signal and the secondbaseband signal to obtain an interferometric signal; determining,according to the interferometric signal, an interferometrictime-frequency spectrum of the target to be recognized by using thepreset time-frequency analysis algorithm; and determining aninterferometric empirical feature according to the interferometrictime-frequency spectrum and a preset feature extraction algorithm, wherethe transversal velocity information includes the interferometricempirical feature.

Optionally, where the determining, according to the first basebandsignal and the second baseband signal, radial velocity information ofthe target to be recognized by using a preset time-frequency analysisalgorithm includes: using the preset time-frequency analysis algorithmto determine a first time-frequency spectrum corresponding to the firstbaseband signal and a second time-frequency spectrum corresponding tothe second baseband signal; and determining a first empirical featureaccording to the first time-frequency spectrum and the preset featureextraction algorithm, and determining a second empirical featureaccording to the second time-frequency spectrum and the preset featureextraction algorithm, where the radial velocity information includes thefirst empirical feature and the second empirical feature.

Optionally, where the determining the category of the posture of thetarget to be recognized according to the transversal velocityinformation and the radial velocity information includes: determining,according to the transversal velocity information and the radialvelocity information, the category of the posture of the target to berecognized by using a support vector machine with a linear kernel.

Optionally, where the preset feature extraction algorithm includes:extraction of information on a centroid for positive frequencies andinformation on a centroid for negative frequencies in a time-frequencyspectrum, where the information on the centroid includes a frequency ofthe centroid and a time of the centroid, the time-frequency spectrumincludes the interferometric time-frequency spectrum, the firsttime-frequency spectrum and the second time-frequency spectrum, thepositive frequency is a frequency when the target to be recognized movestoward the radar, and the negative frequency is a frequency when thetarget to be recognized moves away from the radar; and generation ofempirical features according to the information on the centroid for thepositive frequencies and the information on the centroid for thenegative frequencies, where the empirical features include theinterferometric empirical feature, the first empirical feature and thesecond empirical feature.

Optionally, where the empirical features include a first feature value,a second feature value and a third feature value; the first featurevalue is an average frequency of a time-frequency spectrum; the secondfeature value is a difference between the frequency of the centroid forthe positive frequencies and the frequency of the centroid for thenegative frequencies in a time-frequency spectrum; and the third featurevalue is a difference between the time of the centroid for the positivefrequencies and the time of the centroid for the negative frequencies ina time-frequency spectrum.

Optionally, where the preset time-frequency analysis algorithm is toperform a short-time Fourier transform on a signal to obtain aMicro-Doppler time-frequency spectrum.

In a second aspect, the present application provides apparatus forrecognizing a posture of a target, including: a signal acquiring module,configured to acquire a first receiving signal and a second receivingsignal upon scattering of a transmitting signal from a target to berecognized; a signal processing module, configured to determine a firstbaseband signal according to the first receiving signal and thetransmitting signal, and determine a second baseband signal according tothe second receiving signal and the transmitting signal; a targetposture recognizing module, configured to determine a category of theposture of the target to be recognized according to the first basebandsignal and the second baseband signal.

Optionally, the signal processing module is further configured todetermine, according to the first baseband signal and the secondbaseband signal, radial velocity information of the target to berecognized by using a preset time-frequency analysis algorithm; thesignal processing module is further configured to performinterferometric processing to the first baseband signal and the secondbaseband signal to obtain transversal velocity information of the targetto be recognized; and the target posture recognizing module isconfigured to determine the category of the posture of the target to berecognized according to the transversal velocity information and theradial velocity information.

Optionally, the signal processing module is further configured toperform interferometric processing to the first baseband signal and thesecond baseband signal to obtain an interferometric signal; the signalprocessing module is further configured to determine, according to theinterferometric signal, an interferometric time-frequency spectrum ofthe target to be recognized by using the preset time-frequency analysisalgorithm; and the signal processing module is further configured todetermine an interferometric empirical feature according to theinterferometric time-frequency spectrum and a preset feature extractionalgorithm, where the transversal velocity information includes theinterferometric empirical feature.

Optionally, the signal processing module is further configured to usethe preset time-frequency analysis algorithm to determine a firsttime-frequency spectrum corresponding to the first baseband signal and asecond time-frequency spectrum corresponding to the second basebandsignal; and the signal processing module is further configured todetermine a first empirical feature according to the firsttime-frequency spectrum and the preset feature extraction algorithm, anddetermine a second empirical feature according to the secondtime-frequency spectrum and the preset feature extraction algorithm,where the radial velocity information includes the first empiricalfeature and the second empirical feature.

Optionally, the target posture recognizing module is configured todetermine, according to the transversal velocity information and theradial velocity information, the category of the posture of the targetto be recognized by using a support vector machine with a linear kernel.

Optionally, the signal processing module is further configured toextract information on a centroid for positive frequencies andinformation on a centroid for negative frequencies in a time-frequencyspectrum, where the information on the centroid includes a frequency ofthe centroid and a time of the centroid, the time-frequency spectrumincludes the interferometric time-frequency spectrum, the firsttime-frequency spectrum and the second time-frequency spectrum, thepositive frequency is a frequency when the target to be recognized movestoward the radar, and the negative frequency is a frequency when thetarget to be recognized moves away from the radar; the signal processingmodule is further configured to generate empirical features according tothe information on the centroid for the positive frequencies and theinformation on the centroid for the negative frequencies, where theempirical features include the interferometric empirical feature, thefirst empirical feature and the second empirical feature.

Optionally, the signal processing module is further configured togenerate the empirical features including a first feature value, asecond feature value and a third feature value; the first feature valueis an average frequency of a time-frequency spectrum; the second featurevalue is a difference between the frequency of the centroid for thepositive frequencies and the frequency of the centroid for the negativefrequencies in a time-frequency spectrum; and the third feature value isa difference between the time of the centroid for the positivefrequencies and the time of the centroid for the negative frequencies ina time-frequency spectrum.

Optionally, the signal processing module is further configured toperform a short-time Fourier transform on a signal to obtain aMicro-Doppler time-frequency spectrum by using a preset time-frequencyanalysis algorithm.

In the third aspect, the present application provides an electronicapparatus for recognizing a posture of a target, including: a memory,configured to store program instructions; a processor, configured tocall and execute the program instructions in the memory to perform anyone of possible methods for recognizing a posture of a target describedin the first aspect.

In the fourth aspect, the present application provides a storage medium,the storage medium is stored with a computer program, the computerprogram is configured to perform any one of the methods for recognizinga posture of a target described in the first aspect.

According to the method, apparatus and electronic equipment forrecognizing a posture of a target provided by the present application, afirst receiving signal and a second receiving signal upon scattering ofa transmitting signal from a target to be recognized are acquired, afirst baseband signal is determined according to the first receivingsignal and the transmitting signal, and a second baseband signal isdetermined according to the second receiving signal and the transmittingsignal; and a category of the posture of the target to be recognized isfinally determined according to the first baseband signal and the secondbaseband signal. The first baseband signal and the second basebandsignal carry various feature values related to the posture of the targetto be recognized, including but not limited to transversal velocityinformation and radial velocity information, etc. By virtue of thebinding among various feature values including the radial andtransversal velocity information of the posture of the target, thetransversal velocity information is complemented, hence, postures of thetarget under different azimuth angles and horizontally symmetricalpostures (such as swiping from left to right and swiping from right toleft) can be distinguished more accurately, thereby realizingrecognition of the posture of the target with high accuracy and highstability, making the hardware cost and the algorithm complexityrelatively low, and achieving good real-time interaction.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

To illustrate the technical solutions in the present application or inprior art clearly, drawings required in the description of theembodiment or prior art are briefly introduced. Obviously, the drawingsin the following description are some embodiments of the presentapplication, and those skilled in the art can obtain other drawingsbased on these drawings without paying any creative labor.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an application scenario of a method forrecognizing a posture of a target provided by the present application;

FIG. 2 is a schematic flowchart of a method for recognizing a posture ofa target provided by the present application;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of an echo receiving signal of afrequency-modulated continuous-wave interferometric radar provided bythe present application;

FIG. 4 is a schematic flowchart of another method for recognizing aposture of a target provided by the present application;

FIG. 5 is a schematic flowchart of yet another method for recognizing aposture of a target provided by the present application;

FIG. 6 is a classification diagram of postures of a target to berecognized provided by the present application;

FIG. 7 is a first time-frequency spectrum provided by the presentapplication;

FIG. 8 is a second time-frequency spectrum provided by the presentapplication;

FIG. 9 is an interferometric time-frequency spectrum provided by thepresent application;

FIG. 10 is a map depicting locations of centroids of positive andnegative frequency parts in the time-frequency spectrum provided by thepresent application;

FIG. 11 is a distribution diagram of radial empirical features of testsamples of the target to be recognized provided by the presentapplication;

FIG. 12 is a distribution diagram of transversal empirical features oftest samples of the target to be recognized provided by the presentapplication;

FIGS. 13 a to 13 i are relationship diagrams between recognitionaccuracy and azimuth angle of multiple gestures provided by the presentapplication;

FIGS. 14 a to 14 l are confusion matrix diagrams of nine gesturesclassified by three systems provided by the present application underdifferent azimuth angles;

FIG. 15 is a structural diagram of apparatus for recognizing a postureof a target provided by the present application; and

FIG. 16 is a structural diagram of electronic equipment for recognizinga posture of a target provided by the present application.

DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present applicationare clearly and completely described in the following with reference tothe drawings in the embodiments of the present application. It isobvious that the described embodiments are only part of the embodimentsof the present application, but not all embodiments. All otherembodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art based onthe embodiments of the present application without creative labors arewithin the scope of the present application.

The terms “first”, “second”, “third”, “fourth”, etc. (if any) in thedescription and claims of the present application and drawings are usedto distinguish similar objects, and do not have to be used to describe aspecific order or sequence. It should be understood that the data usedin this way can be interchanged under appropriate circumstances, so thatthe embodiments of the present application described herein can beimplemented in an order other than those illustrated or describedherein. In addition, the terms “including” and “having” and anyvariations thereof are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusions, forexample, processes, methods, systems, products or apparatus that containa series of steps or units need not be limited to those clearly listedthose steps or units, but may instead include other steps or units thatare not explicitly listed or inherent to these processes, methods,products, or equipment.

In prior art, a traditional recognition method uses a radar to transmita microwave and receive an echo. Performing time-frequency analysis onthe radar echo to obtain a Micro-Doppler feature of the echo, thenrecognizing and classifying the moving target. However, the method inwhich analysis is purely performed on the radar echo can only reflect aradical velocity feature of the target, rather than a transversal motionfeature of the target, thereby making the accuracy of posturerecognition of a target highly sensitive to an azimuth angle. When anazimuth angle of the moving target deviating from a positive directionof the radar exceeds a certain range, the accuracy of the recognitionwill be greatly influenced. Moreover, the radar can only obtainprojection of the target's velocity along the radial direction, sincethe radial projection cannot reflect the transversal motion feature,thus leading to low accuracy of recognizing horizontally symmetricalgestures (such as swiping from left to right and swiping from right toleft) by the radar. On the other hand, using a MIMO radar to obtainangle information of the target by applying an array antenna, so as toobtain the transversal motion feature. However, accurate angleinformation requires multi-antenna arrays, which is in a tradeoffrelationship with hardware cost. Also, the time complexity of arraysignal processing is relatively high, thereby making the real-timeinteraction based on postures of the moving target difficult. Therefore,the traditional method for recognizing the posture of the target using atraditional radar fails to obtain the transversal motion feature,besides, the recognition accuracy is low due to the influence of theazimuth angle, the hardware cost of using the MIMO radar is high, thetime complexity of array signal processing is high and the real-timeinteractivity is poor.

Considering the above problems, the present application provides amethod and apparatus for recognizing a posture of a target, electronicequipment and a storage medium, a first receiving signal and a secondreceiving signal upon scattering of a transmitting signal from a targetto be recognized are acquired, a first baseband signal is determinedaccording to the first receiving signal and the transmitting signal, anda second baseband signal is determined according to the second receivingsignal and the transmitting signal; and a category of the posture of thetarget to be recognized is finally determined according to the firstbaseband signal and the second baseband signal. The first basebandsignal and the second baseband signal carry various feature valuesrelated to the posture of the target to be recognized, including but notlimited to transversal velocity information and radial velocityinformation, etc. By virtue of the binding, complementation andcomparison among various feature values including the radial andtransversal velocity information of the posture of the target, therebyrealizing recognition of postures of the target in differentorientations and horizontally symmetric postures with high accuracy andhigh stability, making the hardware cost relatively low, and achievinggood real-time interaction.

In the following embodiments of the application, a human hand is takenas a target for describing and explaining the method, apparatus andelectronic equipment for recognizing a posture of a target, provided bythe embodiments of the present application. FIG. 1 is a schematicdiagram of an application scenario of a method for recognizing a postureof a target provided by the present application. In this scenario, atransmitting antenna 111 of a frequency-modulated continuous-wave radar11 transmits a transmitting signal, and two receiving antennas of thefrequency-modulated continuous-wave radar 11 are a first receivingantenna (i.e., a receiving antenna 112) and a second receiving antenna(i.e., a receiving antenna 113) respectively. The receiving antenna 112and the receiving antenna 113 respectively receive the first receivingsignal and the second receiving signal upon scattering of a transmittingsignal from a human hand 13; subsequently, a terminal 12 acquires theabove-mentioned transmitting signal, the first receiving signal and thesecond receiving signal from the frequency-modulated continuous-waveradar 11, and determines a gesture category i.e., a category of aposture of the human hand 13 using the method for recognizing a postureof a target provided by the present application. The terminal 12 may be,for example, a computer, a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a smart homeappliance, etc.

It should be noted that the frequency-modulated continuous-wave radar ofthe embodiment of the present application has one transmitting antennaand two separate receiving antennas, namely an interferometric radar.However, the radar described in the present application includes but isnot limited to this form of interferometric radar. It can also be aradar with multiple receiving antennas and multiple transmittingantennas combined. A radar belongs to the radar described in the presentapplication as long as it can realize the technical solution describedin the present application. In the following of the present application,the wording such as the first receiving signal and the second receivingsignal, a first baseband signal and a second baseband signal, etc.,actually means that at least two receiving signals and at least onetransmitting signal are required, and all receiving signals areprocessed to obtain corresponding baseband signals, and theninterferometric processing is performed on the corresponding basebandsignals, and then transversal and radial velocity information of thetarget to be recognized are obtained by performing time-frequencyanalysis, and the posture of the target is recognized based thereon.Simply increasing the receiving signal in number, and/or, increasing thetransmitting signal in number is still within the scope of the technicalsolution described in the present application, and the presentapplication does not limit the number of receiving signals andtransmitting signals in any way.

The classification of postures of the target in the followingembodiments is shown in FIG. 6 , which is a classification diagram ofpostures of a target to be recognized provided by the presentapplication. As shown in FIG. 6 , the classifications of gestures are asfollows: (a) swiping from front to back, (b) swiping from back to front,(c) swiping from left to right, (d) swiping from right to left, (e)rotating in counterclockwise, (0 rotating in clockwise, (g) swiping fromup to down, (h) swiping from down to up, (i) blank reference. In theembodiment, eight gestures and a blank reference are included. The blankreference corresponds to the case where no hand moves in front of theradar. The purpose is to determine whether there is an active target tobe recognized in a field of view of the radar.

It can be understood that the method provided by the embodiments of thepresent application can be used not only to recognize hand gesturecategories, but also to recognize the categories of postures of anyobjects, such as posture recognition, fall recognition, etc.

In the following, an interferometric radar is taken as an example, wherethe interferometric radar has one transmitting antenna and two receivingantennas and can transmit and receive a continuous wave whose frequencyis modulated by a specific signal, and the technical solutions of theembodiments of the present application are described in detail withspecific embodiments. The following specific embodiments may be combinedwith each other, and the same or similar concepts or processes may notbe repeated in some embodiments.

FIG. 2 is a schematics flowchart of a method for recognizing a postureof a target provided by the present application. This embodiment relatesto a specific process of how to process a signal of an interferometricradar and then recognize a category of the posture of the target. Asshown in FIG. 2 , the method includes:

S101, acquiring a first receiving signal and a second receiving signalupon scattering of a transmitting signal from a target to be recognized.

In this step, the transmitting signal may specifically be a linearfrequency modulated wave signal. The transmitting antenna of theinterferometric radar transmits the linear frequency modulated wavesignal. After the signal is scattered by the target, the first receivingsignal and the second receiving signal are formed and received by thefirst receiving antenna and the second receiving antenna of the radar,so that the corresponding antenna obtains the first receiving signal andthe second receiving signal accordingly.

In a possible situation, specifically, when a carrier frequency of thelinear frequency-modulated continuous-wave transmitted by thefrequency-modulated continuous-wave interferometric radar is f₀, thetransmitting signal can be expressed by Equation (1), as follows:s _(T)(t)=exp(−j2πf ₀ t)  (1)

where f₀ is the carrier frequency, and j is the imaginary unit.

S102, determining a first baseband signal according to the firstreceiving signal and the transmitting signal, and determining a secondbaseband signal according to the second receiving signal and thetransmitting signal.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of an echo receiving signal of afrequency-modulated continuous-wave interferometric radar provided bythe present application. The transmitting signal is scattered by thetarget to be recognized and received by two receiving antennas. Theantenna 1 and antenna 2 are receiving antennas and the distance betweenthem is D. In this step, taking the antenna 1 as the reference, thereceiving signal, i.e., the first receiving signal and the transmittingsignal are mixed and filtered to obtain a beat signal of thetransmitting signal and the first receiving signal, that is, a firstbaseband signal, which can be specifically expressed by Equation (2).Under a far field assumption, compared with the antenna 1, the secondreceiving signal received by the antenna 2 is delayed by τ. Similarly,the second receiving signal and the transmitting signal are mixed andfiltered to obtain a second baseband signal, which can be specificallyexpressed by Equation (3):

$\begin{matrix}{{S_{1}(t)} = {\exp\left( {{- j}2\pi{f_{0}\left( {t - \frac{2R}{c}} \right)}} \right)}} & (2) \\{\begin{matrix}{{S_{2}(t)} = {\exp\left( {{- j}2\pi{f_{0}\left( {t - \frac{2R}{c} - \tau} \right)}} \right)}} \\{= {\exp\left( {{- j}2\pi{f_{0}\left( {t - \frac{2R}{c} - \frac{D\;\sin\;\varphi}{c}} \right)}} \right)}}\end{matrix}{{{{where}\mspace{14mu}{delay}\mspace{14mu}\tau} = \frac{D\;\sin\;\varphi}{c}},}} & (3)\end{matrix}$

R is a range of the target with respect to the radar, c is the speed oflight, φ is an angle of arrival of the radar's echo signal reaching thereceiving antenna, that is, the azimuth angle of the target to berecognized.

S103, determining a category of the posture of the target to berecognized according to the first baseband signal and the secondbaseband signal.

In this step, time-frequency analysis is performed on the first basebandsignal and the second baseband signal, respectively, to obtain timedistribution features of each velocity component of the target to berecognized, that is, Micro-Doppler features, and then feature valuescorresponding to specific postures can be extracted therefrom, includingbut not limited to: a Micro-Doppler spectrum of the baseband signal,radial velocity information, transversal velocity information, acentroid for positive frequencies, a centroid for negative frequencies,a posture duration, a maximum positive frequency and its time, a minimumnegative frequency and its time, an average frequency, a frequencybandwidth, a frequency variance or a standard deviation, etc.

In a possible design, frequency peaks of the first baseband signal andthe second baseband signal are calculated as a first frequency shift anda second frequency shift of the target to be recognized, and adifference frequency signal between the first receiving signal and thesecond receiving signal is calculated by Equation (4), and then Equation(5) is used to calculate a transversal velocity of the target to berecognized. Equation (4) and Equation (5) are as follows:

$\begin{matrix}{f_{a} = {f_{d\; 1} - f_{d\; 2}}} & (4) \\{\omega = \frac{f_{a}\lambda_{t_{s}}}{D}} & (5)\end{matrix}$

where f_(α) is the difference frequency signal, f_(d1) is the firstfrequency shift, f_(d2) is the second frequency shift, co is atangential velocity, i.e., the transversal velocity, D is the baselinedistance between the two receiving antennas, λ_(t) _(s) corresponds to acarrier wavelength of the radar at the time t=t_(s)+nT, T is a sweepperiod.

Optionally, it is also possible to iteratively combine the firstbaseband signal and the second baseband signal, perform differentoperations such as difference, quotient, addition, multiplication,convolution, and interferometric processing, and then performtime-frequency analysis to obtain transversal and radial motioninformation feature values which can be used to distinguish differentpostures.

Obviously, different postures correspond to one or more differentfeature values. Based on this feature value or a set of feature values,a combination comparison or matching comparison is performed. In theembodiment of the present application, the transversal velocity featureand the radial velocity feature of the target to be recognized interactwith each other, complement each other, and supplement the transversalvelocity information, in this way, postures of the target underdifferent azimuth angles and horizontally symmetric motions (such asswiping from left to right and swiping from right to left) may bedistinguished more accurately, the transversal velocity feature and theradial velocity feature can form a specific set of recognitionclassification vectors, and establish a correspondence table or acorresponding function relationship with postures (i.e., gestures) ofthe target to be recognized, to obtain classification categories of thepostures of the target to be recognized.

The present embodiment provides a method for recognizing a posture of atarget, a first receiving signal and a second receiving signal uponscattering of a transmitting signal from a target to be recognized areacquired, a first baseband signal is determined according to the firstreceiving signal and the transmitting signal, and a second basebandsignal is determined according to the second receiving signal and thetransmitting signal; and a category of the posture of the target to berecognized is finally determined according to the first baseband signaland the second baseband signal. The first baseband signal and the secondbaseband signal carry various feature values related to the posture ofthe target to be recognized, including but not limited to transversalvelocity information and radial velocity information, etc. By virtue ofthe binding among various feature values including the radial andtransversal velocity information of the posture of the target, thetransversal velocity information is complemented, hence, postures of thetarget under different azimuth angles and horizontally symmetricalpostures (such as swiping from left to right and swiping from right toleft) can be distinguished more accurately, thereby realizingrecognition of the posture of the target with high accuracy and highstability, making the hardware cost and the algorithm complexityrelatively low, and achieving good real-time interaction.

It should be noted that the embodiment does not limit the specificmethod for mining feature values related to the posture of the target tobe recognized, the method falls into the scope discussed in theembodiment as long as it can obtain the transversal velocity feature andthe radial velocity feature of the target to be tested.

FIG. 4 is a schematic flowchart of another method for recognizing aposture of a target provided by the present application. As shown inFIG. 4 , the method for recognizing a posture of a target provided inthe embodiment includes following specific steps:

S201, acquiring a first receiving signal and a second receiving signalupon scattering of a transmitting signal from a target to be recognized;and

S202, determining a first baseband signal according to the firstreceiving signal and the transmitting signal, and determining a secondbaseband signal according to the second receiving signal and thetransmitting signal.

Reference may be made to steps S101 to S102 shown in FIG. 2 fortechnical terms, technical effects, technical features, and optionalimplementations of steps S201 to S202, and the repeated content will notbe repeated herein again.

S203, performing time-frequency analysis on the first baseband signaland the second baseband signal to obtain radial velocity information ofthe target to be recognized.

In this step, time-frequency analysis is performed on the first basebandsignal and the second baseband signal. It can be understood that thefirst baseband signal and the second baseband signal are time-domainsignals, and the time-domain signals need to be converted intotime-frequency domain signals so as to obtain their correspondingtime-frequency spectrums. There are many ways for implementingconversions between a time domain and a time frequency domain, such asthe short time Fourier transform (STFT), the Gabor transform, thefractional Fourier transform (FrFT), the wavelet transform (WT), etc.

In a possible case, the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) is performedon the first baseband signal and the second baseband signal, a firstMicro-Doppler time-frequency spectrum is obtained based on the firstbaseband signal and a second Micro-Doppler time-frequency spectrum isobtained based on the second baseband signal. From the Micro-Dopplertime-frequency spectrums, the Micro-Doppler features of the target to berecognized are obtained, that is, time distribution features of thevelocity components of the target to be recognized, thereby obtainingthe radial velocity information of the target to be recognized.

Specifically, it may be: down-sampling the radar signal of thefrequency-modulated continuous-wave interferometric radar in such amanner that the sampling period t_(s) equals to the sweep period T orthe ratio between them is 1:50, then, the short-time Fourier transformis performed on the first baseband signal and the second basebandsignal, and peak values are extracted as a third frequency shift and afourth frequency shift induced by the posture of the target to berecognized.

Subsequently, a first radial velocity and a second radial velocity ofthe target can be calculated using Equation (6) and Equation (7), andEquation (6) and Equation (7) are as follows:

$\begin{matrix}{v_{r1} = \frac{cf_{d3}}{2f_{0}}} & (6) \\{v_{r2} = \frac{cf_{d4}}{2f_{0}}} & (7)\end{matrix}$

where v_(r1) is the first radial velocity, v_(r2) is the second radialvelocity, c is the speed of light, f_(d3) is the third frequency shift,f_(d4) is the fourth frequency shift, and f₀ is the central carrierfrequency.

S204, performing interferometric processing on the first baseband signaland the second baseband signal to obtain the transversal velocityinformation of the target to be recognized.

In this step, the first baseband signal and the second baseband signalare interfered in an interferometer to obtain an interferometric signal.The generated response, that is, the interferometric processing and itsresult can be expressed by Equation (8), as follows:

$\begin{matrix}\begin{matrix}{{S_{I}(t)} = \left\langle {{S_{1}(t)}*{S_{2}^{*}(t)}} \right\rangle} \\{= {\exp\left( \frac{j2\pi f_{0}D\;\sin\;\varphi}{c} \right)}}\end{matrix} & (8)\end{matrix}$

where S_(I)(t) is the interferometric signal, S₁(t) is the firstbaseband signal, S₂(t) is the second baseband signal, c is the speed oflight, D is the baseline length between the two receiving antennas, φ isthe azimuth angle of the target to be recognized, and f₀ is the centralcarrier frequency.

The interferometric frequency induced by the transversal velocity is atime derivative of the phase term in Equation (8), which can beexpressed by Equation (9), as follows:

$\begin{matrix}\begin{matrix}{{f_{I}(t)} = {\frac{1}{2\pi}\frac{d}{dt}\left( \frac{2\pi f_{0}D\;\sin\;\varphi}{c} \right)}} \\{= \frac{f_{0}D\;{\omega cos\varphi}}{c}} \\{= \frac{D\;{\omega cos\varphi}}{\lambda_{0}}}\end{matrix} & (9)\end{matrix}$

where λ₀ is a wavelength of a carrier signal, D is the baseline distancebetween the two receiving antennas, and

$\omega = \frac{d\;\varphi}{dt}$is an angular velocity measured with respect to the position of theradar.

The transversal velocity is proportional to the angular velocity, i.e.,v_(t)=ωR, where R is the distance of the target with respect to theradar. Therefore, in the following, unless otherwise specified, nodistinction will be made between the angular velocity and thetransversal velocity. Obviously, the phase and frequency components ofthe interferometric signal can reflect the azimuth angle φ and theangular velocity ω, respectively. By performing time-frequency analysison the interferometric signal, the transversal motion feature of thegesture can be obtained.

S205, determining a category of the posture of the target to berecognized according to the transversal velocity information and theradial velocity information of the target to be recognized.

In this step, taking the right opposite side of the interferometricradar as a reference zero azimuth angle, the transversal velocityinformation includes the azimuth angle φ and the angular velocity ω. Forthe target to be recognized under different azimuth angles, thecorresponding angular velocity, i.e., the transversal velocity, willchange accordingly, and the relationship between them is calculatedaccording to Equation (9) in the previous step, in this way, thepostures of the target under different azimuth angles can be classified,thereby improving the recognition accuracy of the postures of the targetto be recognized under different azimuth angles.

In addition, the radial velocity is the projection of the velocity ofthe target to be recognized along the radial direction. For somehorizontally symmetrical motions, that is, the motions that are distinctin the transversal direction but with similar radial projections, it isnecessary to introduce transversal velocity information. By combiningthe transversal velocity information with the radial velocityinformation, for example, forming a synthesized velocity vector group,and then performing calculations on this vector group, recognitionclassification results corresponding to different postureclassifications can be obtained.

This embodiment provides a method for recognizing a posture of a target,a first receiving signal and a second receiving signal upon scatteringof a transmitting signal from a target to be recognized are acquired,then a first baseband signal is determined according to the firstreceiving signal and the transmitting signal, and a second basebandsignal is determined according to the second receiving signal and thetransmitting signal, and then time-frequency analysis is performed onthe first baseband signal and the second baseband signal to obtainradial velocity information of the target to be recognized, theninterferometric processing is performed on the first baseband signal andthe second baseband signal to obtain transversal velocity information ofthe target to be recognized, and finally a category of the posture ofthe target to be recognized is determined according to the transversalvelocity information and the radial velocity information of the targetto be recognized. By virtue of the binding among various feature valuesincluding the radial and transversal velocity information of the postureof the target, the transversal velocity information is complemented,hence, postures of the target under different azimuth angles andhorizontally symmetrical postures (such as swiping from left to rightand swiping from right to left) can be distinguished more accurately,thereby realizing recognition of the posture of the target with highaccuracy and high stability, making the hardware cost and the algorithmcomplexity relatively low, and achieving good real-time interaction.

FIG. 5 is a schematic flowchart of yet another method for recognizing aposture of a target provided by the present application. In theembodiment, a target to be recognized is a human hand, and the postureof the target to be recognized is a gesture. As shown in FIG. 5 , themethod for recognizing a posture of a target provided in the embodimentincludes following specific steps:

S301, acquiring a first receiving signal and a second receiving signalupon scattering of a transmitting signal from a target to be recognized;and

S302, determining a first baseband signal according to the firstreceiving signal and the transmitting signal, and determining a secondbaseband signal according to the second receiving signal and thetransmitting signal.

Reference may be made to steps S101-S102 shown in FIG. 2 for technicalterms, technical effects, technical features, and optionalimplementations of steps S301-S302, which will not be repeated hereinagain.

S303, performing time-frequency analysis on the first baseband signaland the second baseband signal to obtain a first time-frequency spectrumand a second time-frequency spectrum.

The first baseband signal and the second baseband signal are time-domainsignals, and the time-domain signals need to be converted intotime-frequency-domain signals. Reference may be made to step S203 ofFIG. 4 for various conversion methods, which will not be repeated hereinagain.

In this step of the embodiment, the short-time Fourier transform isperformed on the first baseband signal to obtain a Micro-Dopplertime-frequency spectrum, that is, the first time-frequency spectrum, andthe short-time Fourier transform is performed on the second basebandsignal to obtain a Micro-Doppler time-frequency spectrum, that is, thesecond time-frequency spectrum. The time-frequency spectrum refers to aspectrum with records in two dimensions (time and frequency). That is,coordinates of points in the time-frequency spectrum are composed oftimes and frequencies, as shown in FIG. 7 and FIG. 8 .

FIG. 7 is a first time-frequency spectrum provided by the presentapplication. FIG. 8 is a second time-frequency spectrum provided by thepresent application. As shown in FIGS. 7 and 8 , (a) to (i) are the ninegesture categories corresponding to FIG. 6 , and dark areas surroundedby white parts are the highest portions of positive frequenciesgenerated by human hand movements. Gray transitional areas among thewhite parts are the negative frequencies generated by human handmovements. The abscissa of each time-frequency spectrum is time and theordinate is frequency. Each point in the figure represents the frequencyof the gesture at that position at a certain time. As shown in thefigures, each gesture has its own specific time-frequency spectrum, andcategories of the gestures can be recognized according to thetime-frequency spectrums.

S304, performing interferometric processing on the first baseband signaland the second baseband signal to obtain an interferometric signal.

Reference may be made to step S204 shown in FIG. 4 for technical terms,technical effects, technical features, and optional implementations ofthis step, and the repeated content will not be repeated herein again.

S305, processing the interferometric signal by using a presettime-frequency analysis algorithm to obtain an interferometrictime-frequency spectrum.

In this step, the short-time Fourier transform is performed on theinterferometric signal to obtain the Micro-Doppler time-frequencyspectrum of the interferometric signal, that is, the interferometrictime-frequency spectrum.

FIG. 9 is an interferometric time-frequency spectrum provided by thepresent application. As shown in FIG. 9 , (a) to (i) are the ninegesture categories corresponding to FIG. 6 , and dark areas surroundedby white parts are the highest portions of positive frequenciesgenerated by human hand movements. Gray transitional areas among thewhite parts are the negative frequencies generated by human handmovements. The abscissa of each time-frequency spectrum is time and theordinate is frequency. Each point in the figure represents the frequencyof the gesture at that position at a certain time. Compared with FIG. 7and FIG. 8 , the interferometric time-frequency spectrum varies greatlywith respect to the frequency spectrum of the corresponding gesture, andcan thus be used as supplementary information for gesture recognition toimprove the accuracy of gesture recognition.

It should be noted that the content in step S303 can also be executedtogether in this step.

S306, using a preset feature extraction algorithm to extract a firstempirical feature from the first time-frequency spectrum, to extract asecond empirical feature from the second time-frequency spectrum, and toextract an interferometric empirical feature from the interferometrictime-frequency spectrum.

In this step, with respect to the preset feature extraction algorithm,in a possible design, specifically, in each time-frequency spectrumincluding a first time-frequency spectrum, a second time-frequencyspectrum, and an interferometric time-frequency spectrum, calculating acoordinate of a centroid for positive frequencies and a coordinate of acentroid for negative frequencies in the time-frequency spectrum, whichcan be expressed as (t_(p), f_(p)) and (t_(n), f_(n)), respectively,where t_(p) is time of the centroid for the positive frequencies andt_(n) is time of the centroid for the negative frequencies, f_(p) is afrequency of the centroid for the positive frequencies, and f_(n) is afrequency of the centroid for the negative frequencies. The positivefrequency refers to a frequency when the target to be recognized movestoward a location of the radar, and the negative frequency refers to thefrequency when the target to be recognized moves away from the locationof the radar. FIG. 10 is a map depicting locations of centroids ofpositive and negative frequency parts in the time-frequency spectrumprovided by the present application. As shown in FIG. 10 , the centroidfor the positive frequencies and the centroid for the negativefrequencies can be determined according to a preset centroid calculationalgorithm in the time-frequency spectrum. The calculation algorithm ofthe centroid is not limited herein.

The centroid for the positive frequencies and the centroid for thenegative frequencies can be used to calculate empirical features of eachtime time-frequency spectrum, that is, calculating a first empiricalfeature for the first time-frequency spectrum, calculating a secondempirical feature for the second time-frequency spectrum, andcalculating an interferometric empirical feature for the interferometrictime-frequency spectrum.

Optionally, the empirical features for each time-frequency spectrum mayinclude: a first feature value, a second feature value, and a thirdfeature value. The first feature value is average frequencies of eachtime-frequency spectrum, which can be expressed by Equation (10),specifically as:

$\begin{matrix}{F_{1} = \frac{\sum_{t_{i},f_{j}}{f_{j}{{s\left( {t_{i},f_{j}} \right)}}}}{\Sigma_{t_{i},f_{j}}{{s\left( {t_{i},f_{j}} \right)}}}} & (10)\end{matrix}$

where F₁ is the first feature value, and S(t_(i), f_(j)) is a complexvalue corresponding to the frequency f_(j) at time t_(i) in thetime-frequency spectrum.

The second feature value is a frequency difference between the frequencyof the centroid for the positive frequencies and the frequency of thecentroid for the negative frequencies in the time-frequency spectrum,which can be expressed by Equation (11), as follows:F ₂ =f _(p) −f _(n)  (11)

where F₂ is the second feature value, f_(p) is the frequency of thecentroid for the positive frequencies, and f_(n) is the frequency of thecentroid for the negative frequencies.

The third feature value is a time difference between the time of thecentroid for the positive frequencies and the time of the centroid forthe negative frequencies in the time-frequency spectrum, which can beexpressed by Equation (12), as follows:F ₃ =t _(p) −t _(n)  (12)

where F₃ is the third feature value, t_(p) is the time of the centroidfor the positive frequencies, and t_(n) is the time of the centroid forthe negative frequencies.

The three feature values of the first empirical feature and the threefeature values of the second empirical feature can be used to expressthe radial velocity feature information of the target to be recognized,and the three feature values of the interferometric empirical featurecan be used to express the transversal velocity feature information ofthe target to be recognized.

The following describes the radial and transversal empirical features ofthe target to be recognized using three feature values as threedimensions with reference to FIG. 11 and FIG. 12 , and explains how thetransversal velocity features and the radial velocity feature complementeach other.

FIG. 11 is a distribution diagram of radial empirical features of testsamples of the target to be recognized provided by the presentapplication. This distribution diagram is obtained when the azimuthangle of the target to be recognized is zero degree, that is, when thetarget to be recognized is right opposite to the radar, and under thecondition that each of the 9 categories of the target to be recognized(i.e., 9 hand gestures) is sampled to obtain 100 test samples. Amongthem, one is a blank reference, and the other eight are valid gestures.As shown in FIG. 11 , gestures 1 to 8 represent the eight valid gesturesshown in FIG. 6 , where Posture 1 corresponds to FIG. 6(d), Posture 2corresponds to FIG. 6(a), Posture 3 corresponds to FIG. 6(g), Posture 4corresponds to FIG. 6(h), Posture 5 corresponds to FIG. 6(c), Posture 6corresponds to FIG. 6(b), Posture 7 corresponds to FIG. 6(e), andPosture 8 corresponds to FIG. 6(f), the blank reference corresponds toFIG. 6(i). From FIG. 11 , it can be known that Gestures 1 to 3 can beaccurately recognized based on radial empirical features, but Gestures 4to 8 will interfere with each other if the recognition is performed onlybased on radial empirical features, thereby affecting the recognitionaccuracy. In order to distinguish these confusing gestures, thetransversal empirical features of the target to be recognized areintroduced as shown in FIG. 12 .

FIG. 12 is a distribution diagram of transversal empirical features oftest samples of the target to be recognized provided by the presentapplication. The conditions for obtaining this distribution diagram arethe same as those of FIG. 11 , and details are not described hereinagain. As shown in FIG. 12 , Postures 1 to 8 correspond to the eightgesture numbers in FIG. 11 , the recognition accuracy of some gestureswill be affected if the recognition is only performed based on thetransversal empirical features of FIG. 12 , however, when combining theradial and transversal empirical features shown in FIG. 11 and FIG. 12 ,these eight valid gestures can be distinguished accurately, therefore,it can be known that the transversal velocity complements the radialvelocity effectively, and the cooperation of the two can improve theaccuracy of posture recognition.

S307, inputting the first empirical feature, the second empiricalfeature and the interferometric empirical feature into a support vectormachine with a linear kernel to obtain a category of the posture of thetarget to be recognized.

In the embodiment, the support vector machine (SVM) with the linearkernel is adopted to classify the gesture, i.e., the posture of thetarget to be recognized, where the calculated first empirical feature,second empirical feature, and interferometric empirical feature areinput into the SVM to obtain the gesture category.

To illustrate the fact that, in the embodiment, when the target to berecognized is under different azimuth angles, the introduction of thetransversal velocity feature can improve the accuracy and stability ofposture recognition under different azimuth angles, the following givescomparison among the recognition accuracy of the embodiment, that of onetraditional Micro-Doppler time-frequency spectrum and that of twoMicro-Doppler time-frequency spectrums, which is shown in Table 1 andFIG. 12 .

Table 1 lists the accuracy of gesture recognition at four azimuth anglesusing one Micro-Doppler time-frequency spectrum, two Micro-Dopplertime-frequency spectrums, and two Micro-Doppler time-frequency spectrumstogether with the interferometric time-frequency spectrum. When theazimuth angle is 15°, all three systems reach the highest accuracy. Whenthe hand moves out of the main lobe of the antenna, the recognitionaccuracy under a larger azimuth angle decreases as the signal-to-noiseratio (SNR) decreases. For the case of using a radial Micro-Dopplertime-frequency spectrum, since only radial micro-motion information canbe obtained, the classification accuracy is very sensitive to theazimuth angle, and the accuracy at 45° is only 81.8%. For the other twocases, since the micro-motion information from different directions canbe obtained, the influence of the azimuth angle on the recognitionaccuracy is relatively small. When classifying gestures according to theradial and transversal features, the interferometric radar achieves thehighest recognition accuracy under all azimuth angles.

TABLE 1 Accuracy of gesture recognition under different azimuth anglesin three systems Accuracy Time-frequency spectrum for feature extractionAzimuth angle (a) (b) (c)  0° 90.8% 96.4% 96.8% 15° 93.7% 98.7% 99.3%30° 92.6% 96.8% 97.2% 45° 81.8% 93.0% 95.3% (a) - One Micro-Dopplertime-frequency spectrum (b) - Two Micro-Doppler time-frequency spectrums(c) - Two Micro-Doppler time-frequency spectrums and the interferometrictime-frequency spectrum

FIGS. 13 a to 13 i are relationship diagrams between recognitionaccuracy and azimuth angle of multiple gestures provided by the presentapplication. FIGS. 13 a to 13 i correspond to the nine gestures in FIG.6 , (FIG. 13 a ) swiping from front to back, (FIG. 13 b ) swiping fromback to front, (FIG. 13 c ) swiping from left to right, (FIG. 13 d )swiping from right to left, (FIG. 13 e ) rotating counterclockwise,(FIG. 130 rotating clockwise, (FIG. 13 g ) swiping from up to down,(FIG. 13 h ) swiping from down to up, (FIG. 13 i ) blank reference. Asshown in FIGS. 13 a to 13 i , these nine figures show the relationshipbetween the recognition accuracy of gestures and the azimuth angles. Theclassification accuracy curves of all nine gestures using theinterferometric radar with transversal velocity features are almostalways constant. It is obvious from the comparison of the three radarsystems that the interferometric radar provides the highest stability interms of the recognition accuracy of nine gestures, and it also exhibitsrobustness to changes in azimuth angles, that is, it preserves stablehigh-accuracy recognition performance at different azimuths.

Therefore, the introduction of the transversal velocity feature cansignificantly improve the accuracy of gesture recognition and therecognition stability under different azimuth angles.

In order to illustrate the ability of the embodiment of the presentapplication to accurately recognize horizontally symmetrical postures,the embodiment is compared with two conventional radar recognitionsystems to obtain three systems, namely: one Micro-Dopplertime-frequency spectrum, two Micro-Doppler time-frequency spectrums, twoMicro-Doppler time-frequency spectrums and the interferometrictime-frequency spectrum, comparison and analysis are done usingconfusion matrices of nine gesture classifications under differentazimuth angles.

FIGS. 14 a to 14 i are confusion matrix diagrams of nine gesturesclassified by three systems provided by the present application underdifferent azimuth angles. FIGS. 14 a-14 d are confusion matrix diagramsof the system with only one Micro-Doppler time-frequency spectrum; FIGS.14 e-14 h are confusion matrix diagrams of the system with twoMicro-Doppler time-frequency spectrums; FIGS. 14 i-14 l are confusionmatrix diagrams of the system with two Micro-Doppler time-frequencyspectrums and the interferometric time-frequency spectrum.

As shown in FIGS. 14 a to 14 l , the azimuth angles of FIGS. 14 a, 14 eand 14 i are 0°; the azimuth angles of FIGS. 14 b, 14 f and 14 j are15°; the azimuth angle of FIGS. 14 c, 14 g and 14 k are 30°; the azimuthangles of FIGS. 14 d, 4 h and 14 i are 45°.

In the confusion matrices, horizontally symmetrical gestures (c) and(d), (e) and (f) are easily confused. However, since the human hand is ashort-range distributed target, the Doppler radar can still recognizethese horizontally symmetrical gestures in most cases. However, when theazimuth angle increases, the accuracy of distinguishing gestures (c) and(d) and gestures (e) and (f) drops sharply. In contrast, compared toradars with one or two Micro-Doppler time-frequency spectrums, theinterferometric radar with transversal velocity features can stilldistinguish these horizontal symmetrical gestures with higher accuracyat large azimuth angles. It can be seen that since more micro-motionfeatures can be extracted from different directions, and the use of theinterferometric radar with transversal velocity features can achievehigher spatial resolution, the interferometric radar with transversalvelocity features shows obvious advantage in distinguishing horizontallysymmetrical gestures.

It can also be seen from the confusion matrices that the recognitionaccuracy of different gestures changes significantly under differentazimuth angles. For example, at 0°, the false negative rate of gestures(c), (d) and (f) is relatively high. However, at 30°, gestures (a) and(b) are the most confusing. This shows that the same gesture showsdifferent Micro-Doppler features under different azimuth angles. Byfixing the azimuth angle when performing gestures to obtain moremicro-motion information in the transversal direction, a higherclassification accuracy can be obtained. Therefore, it can be drawn thatcompared with the traditional Doppler radar, the present applicationuses the transversal velocity features obtained from the interferometricradar with transversal velocity features, thereby effectively improvingthe performance of gesture classification and recognition, that is, thepresent application exhibits good adaptability under different azimuthangles, as well as very good performance for distinguishing differentgestures, especially the horizontally symmetrical gestures.

The embodiment provides a method for recognizing a posture of a target,a first receiving signal and a second receiving signal upon scatteringof a transmitting signal from a target to be recognized are acquired,then a first baseband signal is determined according to the firstreceiving signal and the transmitting signal, and a second basebandsignal is determined according to the second receiving signal and thetransmitting signal, and then time-frequency analysis is performed onthe first baseband signal and the second baseband signal to obtain afirst time-frequency spectrum and a second time-frequency spectrum, theninterferometric processing is performed on the first baseband signal andthe second baseband signal to obtain an interferometric signal, thenprocessing the interferometric signal by using a preset time-frequencyanalysis algorithm to obtain an interferometric time-frequency spectrum,then using the preset feature extraction algorithm to extract a firstempirical feature from the first time-frequency spectrum, to extract asecond empirical feature from the second time-frequency spectrum, and toextract an interferometric empirical feature from the interferometrictime-frequency spectrum, and finally inputting the first empiricalfeature, the second empirical feature and the interferometric empiricalfeature into a support vector machine with a linear kernel to obtain thecategory of the posture of the target to be recognized. The firstempirical feature and the second empirical feature reflect radicalvelocity information of the target to be recognized, and theinterferometric empirical feature can reflect transversal velocityinformation of the target to be recognized, by virtue of the bindingamong various feature values including the radial and transversalvelocity information of the posture of the target, the transversalvelocity information is complemented, hence, postures of the targetunder different azimuth angles and horizontally symmetrical postures(such as swiping from left to right and swiping from right to left) canbe distinguished more accurately, thereby realizing recognition of theposture of the target with high accuracy and high stability, making thehardware cost and the algorithm complexity relatively low, and achievinggood real-time interaction.

One of ordinary skill in the art can understand: all or part of thesteps of implementing the above embodiments may be completed by hardwareassociated with program instructions. The foregoing program may bestored in a computer readable storage medium, and when the program isexecuted, the steps of the above method embodiment are performed. Theaforementioned storage medium may include various media that can storeprogram codes, such as, read-only memory (ROM), random access memory(RAM), hard disk, CD, etc.

FIG. 15 is a structural diagram of apparatus for recognizing a postureof a target provided by the present application. The apparatus forrecognizing the posture of the target may be implemented by software,hardware or a combination of both, and may be the aforementionedterminal.

As shown in FIG. 15 , the apparatus 200 for recognizing the posture ofthe target includes a signal acquiring module 201, a signal processingmodule 202, and a target posture recognizing module 203.

The signal acquiring module 201, configured to acquire a first receivingsignal and a second receiving signal upon scattering of a transmittingsignal from a target to be recognized, where the transmitting signal istransmitted by a transmitting antenna of a radar, the first receivingsignal is received by a first receiving antenna of the radar, the secondreceiving signal is received by a second receiving antenna of the radar,and the radar includes at least two receiving antennas;

the signal processing module 202, configured to determine a firstbaseband signal according to the first receiving signal and thetransmitting signal, and determine a second baseband signal according tothe second receiving signal and the transmitting signal; and

the target posture recognizing module 203, configured to determine acategory of the posture of the target to be recognized according to thefirst baseband signal and the second baseband signal.

In some possible designs, the signal processing module 202 is furtherconfigured to determine, according to the first baseband signal and thesecond baseband signal, radial velocity information of the target to berecognized by using a preset time-frequency analysis algorithm;

the signal processing module 202 is further configured to performinterferometric processing to the first baseband signal and the secondbaseband signal to obtain transversal velocity information of the targetto be recognized; and

the target posture recognizing module 203 is configured to determine thecategory of the posture of the target to be recognized according to thetransversal velocity information and the radial velocity information.

In some possible designs, the signal processing module 202 is furtherconfigured to perform interferometric processing to the first basebandsignal and the second baseband signal to obtain an interferometricsignal;

the signal processing module 202 is further configured to determine,according to the interferometric signal, an interferometrictime-frequency spectrum of the target to be recognized by using thepreset time-frequency analysis algorithm; and

the signal processing module 202 is further configured to determine aninterferometric empirical feature according to the interferometrictime-frequency spectrum and a preset feature extraction algorithm, wherethe transversal velocity information includes the interferometricempirical feature.

In some possible designs, the signal processing module 202 is furtherconfigured to use the preset time-frequency analysis algorithm todetermine a first time-frequency spectrum corresponding to the firstbaseband signal and a second time-frequency spectrum corresponding tothe second baseband signal;

the signal processing module 202 is further configured to determine afirst empirical feature according to the first time-frequency spectrumand the preset feature extraction algorithm, and determine a secondempirical feature according to the second time-frequency spectrum andthe preset feature extraction algorithm, where the radial velocityinformation includes the first empirical feature and the secondempirical feature.

In some possible designs, the target posture recognizing module 203 isconfigured to determine, according to the transversal velocityinformation and the radial velocity information, the category of theposture of the target to be recognized by using a support vector machinewith a linear kernel.

In some possible designs, the signal processing module 202 is furtherconfigured to extract information on a centroid for positive frequenciesand information on a centroid for negative frequencies in atime-frequency spectrum, where the information on the centroid includesa frequency of the centroid and a time of the centroid, thetime-frequency spectrum includes the interferometric time-frequencyspectrum, the first time-frequency spectrum and the secondtime-frequency spectrum, the positive frequency is a frequency when thetarget to be recognized moves toward the radar, and the negativefrequency is a frequency when the target to be recognized moves awayfrom the radar;

the signal processing module 202 is further configured to generateempirical features according to the information on the centroid for thepositive frequencies and the information on the centroid for thenegative frequencies, where the empirical features include theinterferometric empirical feature, the first empirical feature and thesecond empirical feature.

In some possible designs, the signal processing module 202 is furtherconfigured to generate the empirical features including a first featurevalue, a second feature value and a third feature value; the firstfeature value is an average frequency of a time-frequency spectrum; thesecond feature value is a difference between the frequency of thecentroid for the positive frequencies and the frequency of the centroidfor the negative frequencies in a time-frequency spectrum; and the thirdfeature value is a difference between the time of the centroid for thepositive frequencies and the time of the centroid for the negativefrequencies in a time-frequency spectrum.

In some possible designs, the signal processing module 202 is furtherconfigured to perform a short-time Fourier transform on a signal toobtain a Micro-Doppler time-frequency spectrum by using a presettime-frequency analysis algorithm.

It is worth noting that the apparatus for recognizing the posture of thetarget provided by the embodiment shown in FIG. 15 can execute themethod for recognizing a posture of a target provided by any of theabove method embodiments. The specific implementation principles andtechnical effects are similar, which are not repeated herein again.

FIG. 16 is a structural diagram of electronic equipment for recognizinga posture of a target provided by the present application. As shown inFIG. 16 , the electronic equipment 300 for recognizing a posture of atarget may include: at least one processor 301 and a memory 302.

FIG. 16 shows electronic equipment with one processor as an example.

The memory 302 is configured to store a program. Specifically, theprogram can include program codes, the program codes include computeroperating instructions.

The memory 302 may include a high speed RAM memory, and may also includea non-volatile memory, such as at least one hard disk memory.

The processor 301 is configured to execute computer executableinstructions stored in the memory 302, to realize the method forrecognizing a posture of a target described in the above methodembodiments.

Where the processor 301 may be a central processing unit (CPU), or anapplication specific integrated circuit (ASIC), or one or moreintegrated circuits configured to implement the embodiments of thepresent application.

Optionally, the memory 302 can be independent, or can be integrated withthe processor 301. When the memory 302 is a component independent fromthe processor 301, the electronic equipment 300 also includes:

a bus 303, configured to connect the processor 301 and the memory 302.The bus may be an industry standard architecture (ISA) bus, a peripheralcomponent interconnection (PCI) bus, or an extended industry standardarchitecture (EISA) bus, and the like. The bus can be divided into anaddress bus, a data bus, a control bus, etc., but it does not mean thatthere is only one bus or one type of bus.

Optionally, in specific implementations, if the memory 302 and theprocessor 301 are integrated on one chip, then the memory 302 and theprocessor 301 can complete communication through an internal interface.

The present application further provides a computer readable storagemedium, the computer readable storage medium may include various mediumsthat can store program codes, such as, a USB flash disk, a portable harddisk, a read-only memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM), a magneticdisk or an optical disk, etc. Specifically, the computer readablestorage medium stores program instructions, and the program instructionsare configured to implement the method for recognizing a posture of atarget in the above embodiments.

Finally, it should be noted that, the above embodiments are only anillustration of the technical solutions of the present application, butnot intended to be a limitation. Although the present application hasbeen described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments,those ordinarily skilled in the art should understand that the technicalsolutions described in the foregoing embodiments may be modified, orsome or all of the technical features may be equivalently replaced; butthe modifications or substitutions do not deviate from the technicalsolutions of the embodiments of the present application.

What is claimed is:
 1. A method for recognizing a posture of a target,comprising: acquiring a first receiving signal and a second receivingsignal upon scattering of a transmitting signal from a target to berecognized, wherein the transmitting signal is transmitted by atransmitting antenna of a radar, the first receiving signal is receivedby a first receiving antenna of the radar, the second receiving signalis received by a second receiving antenna of the radar, and the radarcomprises at least two receiving antennas; determining a first basebandsignal according to the first receiving signal and the transmittingsignal, and determining a second baseband signal according to the secondreceiving signal and the transmitting signal; and determining a categoryof the posture of the target to be recognized according to the firstbaseband signal and the second baseband signal; wherein the determininga category of the posture of the target to be recognized according tothe first baseband signal and the second baseband signal comprises:determining, according to the first baseband signal and the secondbaseband signal, radial velocity information of the target to berecognized by using a preset time-frequency analysis algorithm;performing interferometric processing on the first baseband signal andthe second baseband signal to obtain transversal velocity information ofthe target to be recognized; and determining the category of the postureof the target to be recognized according to the transversal velocityinformation and the radial velocity information; wherein the performinginterferometric processing on the first baseband signal and the secondbaseband signal to obtain transversal velocity information of the targetto be recognized comprises: performing interferometric processing on thefirst baseband signal and the second baseband signal to obtain aninterferometric signal; determining, according to the interferometricsignal, an interferometric time-frequency spectrum of the target to berecognized by using the preset time-frequency analysis algorithm; anddetermining an interferometric empirical feature according to theinterferometric time-frequency spectrum and a preset feature extractionalgorithm, wherein the transversal velocity information comprises theinterferometric empirical feature; wherein the determining, according tothe first baseband signal and the second baseband signal, radialvelocity information of the target to be recognized by using a presettime-frequency analysis algorithm comprises: using the presettime-frequency analysis algorithm to determine a first time-frequencyspectrum corresponding to the first baseband signal and a secondtime-frequency spectrum corresponding to the second baseband signal; anddetermining a first empirical feature according to the firsttime-frequency spectrum and the preset feature extraction algorithm, anddetermining a second empirical feature according to the secondtime-frequency spectrum and the preset feature extraction algorithm,wherein the radial velocity information comprises the first empiricalfeature and the second empirical feature; wherein the determining thecategory of the posture of the target to be recognized according to thetransversal velocity information and the radial velocity informationcomprises: determining, according to the transversal velocityinformation and the radial velocity information, the category of theposture of the target to be recognized by using a support vector machinewith a linear kernel; wherein the preset feature extraction algorithmcomprises: extraction of information on a centroid for positivefrequencies and information on a centroid for negative frequencies in atime-frequency spectrum, wherein the information on the centroidcomprises a frequency of the centroid and a time of the centroid, thetime-frequency spectrum comprises the interferometric time-frequencyspectrum, the first time-frequency spectrum and the secondtime-frequency spectrum, the positive frequency is a frequency when thetarget to be recognized moves toward the radar, and the negativefrequency is a frequency when the target to be recognized moves awayfrom the radar; and generation of empirical features according to theinformation on the centroid for the positive frequencies and theinformation on the centroid for the negative frequencies, wherein theempirical features comprise the interferometric empirical feature, thefirst empirical feature and the second empirical feature.
 2. The methodfor recognizing a posture of a target according to claim 1, wherein theempirical features comprise a first feature value, a second featurevalue and a third feature value; the first feature value is an averagefrequency of a time-frequency spectrum; the second feature value is adifference between the frequency of the centroid for the positivefrequencies and the frequency of the centroid for the negativefrequencies in a time-frequency spectrum; and the third feature value isa difference between the time of the centroid for the positivefrequencies and the time of the centroid for the negative frequencies ina time-frequency spectrum.
 3. The method for recognizing a posture of atarget according to claim 1, wherein the preset time-frequency analysisalgorithm is to perform a short-time Fourier transform on a signal toobtain a Micro-Doppler time-frequency spectrum.
 4. Electronic equipmentfor recognizing a posture of a target, comprising: a processor; and amemory, configured to store executable instructions of the processor;wherein the processor is configured to execute the executableinstructions to implement steps of: acquiring a first receiving signaland a second receiving signal upon scattering of a transmitting signalfrom a target to be recognized, wherein the transmitting signal istransmitted by a transmitting antenna of a radar, the first receivingsignal is received by a first receiving antenna of the radar, the secondreceiving signal is received by a second receiving antenna of the radar,and the radar comprises at least two receiving antennas; determining afirst baseband signal according to the first receiving signal and thetransmitting signal, and determining a second baseband signal accordingto the second receiving signal and the transmitting signal; anddetermining a category of the posture of the target to be recognizedaccording to the first baseband signal and the second baseband signal,determining, according to the first baseband signal and the secondbaseband signal, radial velocity information of the target to berecognized by using a preset time-frequency analysis algorithm;performing interferometric processing on the first baseband signal andthe second baseband signal to obtain transversal velocity information ofthe target to be recognized; and determining the category of the postureof the target to be recognized according to the transversal velocityinformation and the radial velocity information; performinginterferometric processing on the first baseband signal and the secondbaseband signal to obtain an interferometric signal; determining,according to the interferometric signal, an interferometrictime-frequency spectrum of the target to be recognized by using thepreset time-frequency analysis algorithm; and determining aninterferometric empirical feature according to the interferometrictime-frequency spectrum and a preset feature extraction algorithm,wherein the transversal velocity information comprises theinterferometric empirical feature; using the preset time-frequencyanalysis algorithm to determine a first time-frequency spectrumcorresponding to the first baseband signal and a second time-frequencyspectrum corresponding to the second baseband signal; and determining afirst empirical feature according to the first time-frequency spectrumand the preset feature extraction algorithm, and determining a secondempirical feature according to the second time-frequency spectrum andthe preset feature extraction algorithm, wherein the radial velocityinformation comprises the first empirical feature and the secondempirical feature; determining, according to the transversal velocityinformation and the radial velocity information, the category of theposture of the target to be recognized by using a support vector machinewith a linear kernel; wherein the preset feature extraction algorithmcomprises: extraction of information on a centroid for positivefrequencies and information on a centroid for negative frequencies in atime-frequency spectrum, wherein the information on the centroidcomprises a frequency of the centroid and a time of the centroid, thetime-frequency spectrum comprises the interferometric time-frequencyspectrum, the first time-frequency spectrum and the secondtime-frequency spectrum, the positive frequency is a frequency when thetarget to be recognized moves toward the radar, and the negativefrequency is a frequency when the target to be recognized moves awayfrom the radar; and generation of empirical features according to theinformation on the centroid for the positive frequencies and theinformation on the centroid for the negative frequencies, wherein theempirical features comprise the interferometric empirical feature, thefirst empirical feature and the second empirical feature.
 5. Theelectronic equipment for recognizing a posture of a target according toclaim 4, wherein the empirical features comprise a first feature value,a second feature value and a third feature value; the first featurevalue is an average frequency of a time-frequency spectrum; the secondfeature value is a difference between the frequency of the centroid forthe positive frequencies and the frequency of the centroid for thenegative frequencies in a time-frequency spectrum; and the third featurevalue is a difference between the time of the centroid for the positivefrequencies and the time of the centroid for the negative frequencies ina time-frequency spectrum.
 6. The electronic equipment for recognizing aposture of a target according to claim 4, wherein the presettime-frequency analysis algorithm is to perform a short-time Fouriertransform on a signal to obtain a Micro-Doppler time-frequency spectrum.